A brief insight on a method for the analysis of the fitness landscape described by the problem of learning goal-scoring behaviour for robot soccer – a problem that is considered to be very difficult for evolutionary algorithms. The method described uses landscape measures to examine features of...

A brief insight in which NIST is working with FEMA Task Force members to define performance requirements and standard test methods as well as to assess the deployment potential of robots applied to the USAR domain.

A summary on the methodology used for on-line object recognition, based on artificial neural networks for identification and classification purposes. Robust algorithms for perimeter, centroid calculations, object functions and pose estimation bare presented.

A brief insight on the “Task Planner”, a connectionist-based approach that uses vision and force sensing for robotic assembly when assembly components geometry, location and orientation is unknown at all times.